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blowfly

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noun

  1. any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae Also calledbluebottle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Instead, insects -- particularly carrion beetles and blowflies -- act as microbe carriers.

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"It could have been DNA from a blowfly," Holmes says.

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Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses.

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The process of decay is driven by scavengers, in nature beginning with vultures and blowflies and ending with fungi and bacteria.

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Another discovery was that non-scavenger birds such as the meadow pipit, northern wheatear, common reed bunting, bluethroat and lapland bunting all fed on the “bloom†of arthropods, such as blowfly, that developed on the carrion.

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